Jal Yodha

Jal Yodha - Dev Anand Shukhla from Allahabad is what got me going to go google over Save Yamuna campaigns running in delhi. It was my uneasiness while driving over the bridge on the now "cow-grazing marshes turned Yamuna" every day to work that got me to pen my thoughts down.I have heard the pen is mightier than the sword so I thought let me give it a try, cos I wont ever get a sword but then neither am I using a pen to pen this down..ironic!!

To my amazement there was not even a single website dedicated to the cause . Then I tried some social networking websites where I did see the little beginnings but as most other social network forums that is where it ended also.

To start with I wrote two emails one to Mr Naqvi,of whom I chanced to read about in one of these articles on the net and the second to the CM(delhi) out of pure cynism to find out if they are aware that their website - http://www.delhigovt.nic.in/yrda/default.asp on Yamuna River Development Authority- does not provide any vital information on my quest.

Here I did find a few "Suggestions Post" the most interesting one was how do I join it , which is what I was expecting to get information on but then there too there was nothing more than those little beginnings. That I was the 700th -shh customer did not shock me at all . I did try to download a couple of PDF's under Yamuna Action Plan but to vein.

So I followed a link on Green Peace where I found a very useful link on Delhi Govt's Yamuna Action Plan website.
http://forum.greenpeace.org/int/showthread.php?t=1073
http://www.yap.nic.in/delhi-Pollution.asp

The information, figures present on this website happen to be pretty incomplete again so now I wonder where do I go next.. I then happen to find the an email address on the CM's page and i then again got going on writing another mail (thatz what I do for a living..most of the times).

This website got me excited with the detailed information on some real action plans too but when I got searching their tall claims of providing "This server maintains an up to date database of Physical and Financial progress of YAP components of JBIC funded YAP towns. " it came a cropper with data way back from 2001.

Hmm I still did not give up yet , I followed the links to the various NGO's involved in the Public Participation Awareness Campaign. As I clicked on the only link to a website on one of the NGO's in Delhi , I got a 404 (Page not found for all non-geeky people) on it.